N. O, COMPOSITAE 1401
naka, Bahukantaka, Brahmajata, Damana, Damanaka, Damam. Dandi,
Danta, Devashekhara, Gandhotkata. Guchhaphala, Jatila, Kshudra-
dussparsha, Kshudrakantakari, Kulapatra, Kulapatraka, Madanaka*
Muni, Mumpatra, Pandmaga, Patri, Pavitraka, Pundarika, Pushpa-
chamara, Tapasapatn, Tapaswipatra, Tapodhana, Vanadamanaka—;
Urdu: Afsantin—.
8. Artemisia draeuncnlus Linn. Sp. PL (1753) 849.
A perennial, green, erect, hairless herb. Stems 30-60 cm. high.,
grooved and ribbed. Leaves 2.5-3.8 cm. long; basal ones quite
entire or absent; stem-leaves sessile, linear or linear-oblong, sharp-
pointed or toothed. Flower-heads almost round, 3 mm. diam.,
sessile or not, pale, shining, in panicled racemes, sometimes clustered
in threes, horizontal or nodding. Flowers numerous. Bracts hair-
less, broadly oblong, blunt, with broad membranous margins and a
green disk.
Distribution V. Himalaya, 14,000—16,000 fL—^Afghanistan, W. Asia, 5. and Central
Russia.
The aromatic leaves are credited with aperient, stomachic,
stimulant, and febrifuge properties.
Dutch: Dragon—; English: Little Dragon Mugwort, Tarragon—;
French: Dragon, Dragonne, Estragon, Fargon, Herbe au dragon,
Herbe dragonne—: German: Dragun, Kaisersalat—; Italian: Dragon-
tea—; Portuguese: Estragao—; Roumanian: Tarhon—; Russian:
Estragon—; Spanish: Dragoncillo, Estragon—.
9. Artemisia annna Linn, Sp. PL (1753) 847,
Annual, glabrous. Stem high, furrowed, passing into an ample
spreading branching compound panicle. Radical leaves long-petio-
late, in outline triangular-ovate, bipinnatisect; primary segments
petiolulate, secondary ones oblong with acute, dentate pinnatipartite
lacinulae Primary rhachis without teeth. Floral leaves sessile*
%pth linear setaceous teeth. „ Heads very small, globose, pedicellate,
hanging. Outer leaves of involucre few, oblong-Knear, herbaceous;
inner ones suhorbiculate, scarious.
Distribution: Orient, Siberia*